ActionscriptCheatSheet blog posted a new cheatsheet for Adobe AIR. You can download it here. “This is a seven page PDF that outlines all of the new packages and classes specific to Adobe AIR Beta 1”.
A great article written by Charlie Key in switch blog about connecting betweem Flex and PHP. It is a good article on how to send/recieve data between Flex and PHP to interact with database.
Amazon announced another new service for web developers.. Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS). Developers can now add a new payment service to their websites which is far more flexible than even PayPal service.
This service has no setup fees. The pricing is as follows:
For Transactions >= $10:
1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers
2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits
2.9% + $0.30 for credit card
For Transactions < $10:
1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers
2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits
5.0% + $0.05 for credit card
For Amazon Payments balance transfers < $0.05:
20% of the transaction amount, with a minimum fee of $0.0025
Qualified developers can apply for the following monthly volume discounts for credit card transactions:
2.5% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume from $3K- $10K
2.2% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume from $10K – $100K
1.9% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume over $100K
This service blows out my 2CheckOut account which is not flexible at all and cost me around 50$ for setup. It
As slayerment says on his blog, the steps are:
1. Replace esomething.com with MYsomething.com
2. Increase 10px font to at least 12-16px font
3. Change categories to tags
4. Change your news section to a blog
5. Change email a friend to RSS subscriptions
6. Change bookmark this to social network this
7. Change user account to user profile
8. Change crappy hard-coded HTML to Semantic HTML with CSS
9. It’s visitors not HITS!
11. Change esite.com?id=5235&sort=desc&useless=this &one%20more=still%20useless TO.. mysite.com/meaningful-title
12. Change custom built site to open source CMS
Want more detailed? Check it out here
How to get started with OpenID? A question I was asking my self lately. But recently Jarkko Laine posting an article which will save me alot of time searching on how to start using openID on a website.
So what is the myster about robots.txt ? Have you ever seen Googlebot browsing your website? Well, it is the way how search engines index your website. More about it here.
FlexCamp posted a statistic about number of flash player users over the web which is estimated to be around 2,320,000,000 installed on computers and growing by 8,000,000 per day.
Hurray!
Warning: This video contains violent scene and it is not suitable for children…
Nah just joking!
More articles about languages comparison showing up recently. Bayarsaikhan at www.plentyofcode.com writes on his view and experience about J2EE vs ASP.NET vs PHP.
Jesse Rodgers writes about Ruby on Rails and his experience with it in his article “A Year with Ruby on Rails: Advantages, Drawbacks, and Lessons Learned“. Interesting article for who cares to read it.
